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“Year 10 Outdoor Edcucation class enjoying the outdoors at Grays Bush”
Te Kura Tuarua o Tūranga Wāhine Newsletter
Gisborne Girls’ High School
OCT/NOV 2015
Dear students, parents and caregivers, He kura ao, He ao kura ko Turanga Wahine. Nga mihi aroha ki nga kaitiaki a o tatou rangatira.
Term Four has begun with the sunshine of summer making for a warm and enjoyable school experience. We had our first prizegiving last week with our Young Achiever’s Assembly. This assembly is where we acknowledge those students who have achieved highly in academic, sports and cultural endeavours as well as those who have given service to our school. It is always so pleasing to hand out certificates to those students who have given back to the school as part of a student council or in their given sport or cultural activity. There are many opportunities for students to contribute and participate in school activities and I encourage all students to get involved next year. Student leadership and engagement has the power to make our school truly responsive to the needs of our students.
NOV Senior Prizegiving 7.30pm 5th TSA Prizegiving
6th
NCEA Exams start
9th
Yr10 Rippa Rugby
20th
Next week is our Senior Prize GIving where we celebrate the achievements of our senior students. This is always a fine event and I invite all students and their whanau to attend. In particular I encourage all Year 13 students to complete their year by attending this final celebration and sign off in style.
Junior Sports Competition 24-26th EOY
DEC 2-4th
Leavers Dinner
6th
The examination period is due to start the following week and although this can be a challenging and stressful time it can also be an opportunity for students to show how much they have learned and how well they have learned it. All teachers are working towards these exams and are always willing to offer extra assistance and revision activities for all students who request it. In addition, teachers are available to help students who still need to gain some more credits to complete their qualification. I encourage all student to take these opportunities offered.
End of Year 9th Junior Prizegiving The School Magazine for 2015
Junior students are not left off from this time of assessment. Year 10 students will have exams in English, Mathematics and Social Science and both Year 9 and 10 students will be completing asTTle assessments in Reading, Writing and Maths to monitor progress they have made this year. Final assessments in all subject areas will also be conducted to complete final reports for the year and final JCEA credits. I ask all junior students to remain focused over the rest of the term to ensure they have a successful end to their year.
will this year cost $20. If you wish to order and pay for your copy please do so at the office before November 20th. Thank you
Whew! That does sound very busy. Junior students can also look forward to some great activities after all this assessment. We have the Junior Sports Tournament with other Gisborne and Coast schools and then we have End Of Year Activities involving camps for Year 10 and a mix of activities for Year 9s. These occur in the penultimate week of the school year and are always great events to round off the year. Finally we would like to welcome Victoria West, our new Assistant Principal, to our school community and whanau.
Deans and Form Teachers These people play a critical role in your daughter’s success. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to call her form teacher in the first instance. To arrange this please call the school office (06) 8686092
Nga mihi nui ki a koutou. Jan Kumar
1Yr 9 and 10 students of Maori decent interested in a career in Health came to Kia Ora Hauora’s interactive presentation that explored the opportunities the organisation offers both in school and beyond and registered with the programme.
The Deans for this year are: Ingrid Meister Year 9 Arna Majstrovic Year 10 Rowan Belcher Year 11 Hana Crawford-Bowden Year 12 Ian Loffler Year 13 Wendy Kirkwood International Students
Gisborne Girls’ High School Post PO Box 249 Gisborne 4040 Phone 06 868 6092 Fax 06 868 4226 Email [email protected]
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Celebrating Success Results from the Gymnastics Nationals : Keely Phillips, Lucy Mossman Step 9, Hannah Scholefield Step 8, Amber Kingsbeer Step 7 and Amy Baldacchino Step 6 were all selected to represent HBPB at the 2015 NZ National Gymsports Championship for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. All girls did a fantastic job and should be very proud at being selected to go to this. Day 1 All round, Keely Phillips was 3rd, Lucy Mossman 6th overall. Day 2 Apparatus Finals, Keely was 2nd Floor, 4th Bar, 4th Beam, Lucy Mossman 3rd Floor and 2nd Vault.
Extending ideas Congratulations to Sophie Roseman on her success at the Science Fair Winner of: Overall Winner Best Secondary Trophy Best Secondary Girl and Gold Award
Results for Gymsport Trampoline National Championships in Auckland 2015 Brea Low and Lucy Mossman were 3rd in 17 years and over Synchro. Brea Low was also 3rd in Junior International Double Mini.
Also “Congratulations” to Vipasha Mehta and Breanna Hindmarsh who will be experiencing University life early as they head of to Science Courses this Summer holidays. Vipasha has won a scholarship to go to The Rotary National Science and Technology Forum at AUT and Breanna has earnt a trip to Otago University for the Hands on Science Camp. Yr 9 Product Design students worked with dedication and respect during our 4 hour kete weaving workshop. Special thanks to the the team at Adult Literacy Turanga, namely Rene, Bubsie and Connie, along with Wendy Baxter for their time and commitment for teaching our students the tikanga and techniques of weaving with harekeke.
Young Achievers
Principal’s Awards
DANCE -Last night saw the return of one of my dance idols-Lana Phillips- to perform with her colleagues from Footnote Dance in her hometown. Watching Lana perform was so inspiring, she caught everyone’s eye! Seeing how hard she must work and how much potential and pride she puts into her dancing really showed what you can achieve. Last night they performed 7 dances which were all unique and different from what we would usually see. We felt very privileged to have Footnote come to Gisborne considering Lana came to Gisborne Girls’ High School and danced with us at Nadine Antoinette School of Dance. It was awesome to see everyone’s support and hopefully next year they will return with new interpretations of Contemporary Dance . Alice Jenkins.
‘High octane choreography’ –�Ann Hunt, Dominion Post
‘With such a legacy to build on the future for dance has never been brighter’ –�Ian Lochhead, The Press
FORWARD Past/Present/Future Deirdre Tarrant/Malia Johnston
FOOTNOTE.ORG.NZ
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For Tickets and Info
GISBORNE SCHOOLS GROUP BOOKING
7
Sports Results
Careers in the community 22 students, 7 campuses (including The University of Auckland open day), exploring opportunities.
Softball Jimmy Aupouri Memorial Softball Tournament – Tairawhiti Secondary Schools . A great day of softball was held at Barry Park A Grade Girls winner – Gisborne Girls‘ High School was “a class above the rest dominating in all their games.”
Girls’ High Hydraulink Senior A Netball Team - Report on our year.
Students out and about for Careers, STAR course and Gateway.
We are very proud to have captained the team this year. Though we had a few ups and downs at the start of our season, we ended our Gisborne Netball season placed 5th overall in the Premier Grade. We travelled to Rotorua for the Waikato BOP Secondary School Tournament held on Sunday 2 August. This gave us an opportunity to play against other school teams before heading to the Lower North Island Secondary School Netball Competition. We played well through the round robin section but after extra time in the knockout round, we lost by 2. It was a good performance by the girls. Girls’ High Hydraulink Netball Team travelled to Palmerston North Saturday 29 August 2015 to compete at the Lower North Island Secondary School Tournament. We were placed 25th from last year’s results and with only 4 original players from last year’s team it was a new, younger looking team and for some, it was their first experience of Secondary School competition. We would like to thank O’Neill Wilson, Raiha Malcolm and Alex Bermingham who joined the team for the tournament. There was a mixture of weather that the girls were not used to, as we had played our whole netball season indoors. This year we coped well with the weather thanks to the repairs on our school gym, which meant all our training was outside at the netball courts, so playing outdoors was not a problem for us this year. We played 9 games with no wins on Monday, 2 wins Tuesday, a win and a loss on Wednesday, 2 wins on Thursday and a loss on Friday placing us 20th overall. A great effort from the girls moving up the rank by 5 places. We were so excited by our achievement. We were unsure of what the competition was going to be like, but we were really impressed by the spirit showed by our team. The team was happy on and off the courts, the team worked well together, and had a lot of fun at Bowlarama and Flip City, going over to watch the basketball competition when we had time, and when we went out to dinner at Gengys on Wednesday night. Best tournament to date and well planned and organised by our Team Manager Dianah Foley. It’s the last year of High School Netball for Jordan Cribb, Ashleigh Brown-Smith and Te Kahu Peters. We had a great bunch of girls in our team this year, thanks also Sulieti Halafihi, Ladeen Haerewa, Jordyn Broughton, Aroha Brown-McLaren, Paruhi Peters and Lucretia Taitapanui. Big huge thanks to Hugh Spence from Hydraulink for the sponsorship this year. We are really grateful for all the support you have given to Girls’ High Netball and especially to the Girls’ High A team. Special thanks to our Coach Elaine Lamont for her time and dedication this year. Thanks also to Aunty Diny, who managed the team, organised all our fundraising and made sure we had what we needed and more. Thank you to Miss Hill who came to LNISS as our teacher in charge. For future, girls who would like to strive towards representing the school at this level or higher, we as a team recognise the importance of fitness. The games we lost were to teams that were fitter, faster and more accurate than we were. Don’t sit idle over the summer, motivate yourself, work on your fitness, and let your coaches work on your skill. Thank you Girls’ High Netball, I have thoroughly enjoyed playing netball for the five years of High School and good luck to the team for 2016. .Jordan Cribb, Co Captain with Ashleigh Brown Smith 2015.
MOTO X - GGHS results
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Hauraki Plains College- Nailing the Peat 3 ,Friday 16th October : Fritha Rau - Ladies - 12th Deborah Young - Ladies -11th Alana Andrews - Ladies - 3rd
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The Beach Run Beach Run House Results 2015
Well done to all those who took part in the beach run - It was a great day out in the sunshine for all. Congratulations to those who challenged themselves, their peers and the Principal and competed in the year level competition. We have some awesome athletes in our school! A special mention to the year level form classes with the highest participants - excellent teamwork and class spirit shown; also thank you to 11PEH and the Sport Prefects for preparing and running the fun activities and prizes. Year 11 Year 13 Year 9 1st Alicia Hoskin 1st Kimberly Croker 1st Christy Tate 2nd Hannah Overbye 2nd Emma Lynch 2nd Tyla Bermingham 3rd Tyler Burgess 3rd Abby Brice 3rd Maddie wilson Highest participating Year 11 Form Class Highest participating Year 9 Form Class - 11W2 Year 12 - 9L1 1st Holly Drain Year 10 2nd Chloe Harris Overall House Points 1st Olivia Corrin - Overall Beach Run Champion Williams 132 3rd Brittany Jankowich 2nd Emma Le Goff Highest participating Senior Form Class Lysnar 111 3rd Kate Taylor - SL1 Duff 141 Highest participating Year 10 Form Class 10D1
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“Year 10 Outdoor Edcucation class enjoying the outdoors at Grays Bush”
Te Kura Tuarua o Tūranga Wāhine Newsletter
Gisborne Girls’ High School
OCT/NOV 2015
Dear students, parents and caregivers, He kura ao, He ao kura ko Turanga Wahine. Nga mihi aroha ki nga kaitiaki a o tatou rangatira.
Term Four has begun with the sunshine of summer making for a warm and enjoyable school experience. We had our first prizegiving last week with our Young Achiever’s Assembly. This assembly is where we acknowledge those students who have achieved highly in academic, sports and cultural endeavours as well as those who have given service to our school. It is always so pleasing to hand out certificates to those students who have given back to the school as part of a student council or in their given sport or cultural activity. There are many opportunities for students to contribute and participate in school activities and I encourage all students to get involved next year. Student leadership and engagement has the power to make our school truly responsive to the needs of our students.
NOV Senior Prizegiving 7.30pm 5th TSA Prizegiving
6th
NCEA Exams start
9th
Yr10 Rippa Rugby
20th
Next week is our Senior Prize GIving where we celebrate the achievements of our senior students. This is always a fine event and I invite all students and their whanau to attend. In particular I encourage all Year 13 students to complete their year by attending this final celebration and sign off in style.
Junior Sports Competition 24-26th EOY
DEC 2-4th
Leavers Dinner
6th
The examination period is due to start the following week and although this can be a challenging and stressful time it can also be an opportunity for students to show how much they have learned and how well they have learned it. All teachers are working towards these exams and are always willing to offer extra assistance and revision activities for all students who request it. In addition, teachers are available to help students who still need to gain some more credits to complete their qualification. I encourage all student to take these opportunities offered.
End of Year 9th Junior Prizegiving The School Magazine for 2015
Junior students are not left off from this time of assessment. Year 10 students will have exams in English, Mathematics and Social Science and both Year 9 and 10 students will be completing asTTle assessments in Reading, Writing and Maths to monitor progress they have made this year. Final assessments in all subject areas will also be conducted to complete final reports for the year and final JCEA credits. I ask all junior students to remain focused over the rest of the term to ensure they have a successful end to their year.
will this year cost $20. If you wish to order and pay for your copy please do so at the office before November 20th. Thank you
Whew! That does sound very busy. Junior students can also look forward to some great activities after all this assessment. We have the Junior Sports Tournament with other Gisborne and Coast schools and then we have End Of Year Activities involving camps for Year 10 and a mix of activities for Year 9s. These occur in the penultimate week of the school year and are always great events to round off the year. Finally we would like to welcome Victoria West, our new Assistant Principal, to our school community and whanau.
Deans and Form Teachers These people play a critical role in your daughter’s success. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to call her form teacher in the first instance. To arrange this please call the school office (06) 8686092
Nga mihi nui ki a koutou. Jan Kumar
1Yr 9 and 10 students of Maori decent interested in a career in Health came to Kia Ora Hauora’s interactive presentation that explored the opportunities the organisation offers both in school and beyond and registered with the programme.
The Deans for this year are: Ingrid Meister Year 9 Arna Majstrovic Year 10 Rowan Belcher Year 11 Hana Crawford-Bowden Year 12 Ian Loffler Year 13 Wendy Kirkwood International Students
Gisborne Girls’ High School Post PO Box 249 Gisborne 4040 Phone 06 868 6092 Fax 06 868 4226 Email [email protected]
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Celebrating Success Results from the Gymnastics Nationals : Keely Phillips, Lucy Mossman Step 9, Hannah Scholefield Step 8, Amber Kingsbeer Step 7 and Amy Baldacchino Step 6 were all selected to represent HBPB at the 2015 NZ National Gymsports Championship for Women’s Artistic Gymnastics. All girls did a fantastic job and should be very proud at being selected to go to this. Day 1 All round, Keely Phillips was 3rd, Lucy Mossman 6th overall. Day 2 Apparatus Finals, Keely was 2nd Floor, 4th Bar, 4th Beam, Lucy Mossman 3rd Floor and 2nd Vault.
Extending ideas Congratulations to Sophie Roseman on her success at the Science Fair Winner of: Overall Winner Best Secondary Trophy Best Secondary Girl and Gold Award
Results for Gymsport Trampoline National Championships in Auckland 2015 Brea Low and Lucy Mossman were 3rd in 17 years and over Synchro. Brea Low was also 3rd in Junior International Double Mini.
Also “Congratulations” to Vipasha Mehta and Breanna Hindmarsh who will be experiencing University life early as they head of to Science Courses this Summer holidays. Vipasha has won a scholarship to go to The Rotary National Science and Technology Forum at AUT and Breanna has earnt a trip to Otago University for the Hands on Science Camp. Yr 9 Product Design students worked with dedication and respect during our 4 hour kete weaving workshop. Special thanks to the the team at Adult Literacy Turanga, namely Rene, Bubsie and Connie, along with Wendy Baxter for their time and commitment for teaching our students the tikanga and techniques of weaving with harekeke.
Young Achievers
Principal’s Awards
DANCE -Last night saw the return of one of my dance idols-Lana Phillips- to perform with her colleagues from Footnote Dance in her hometown. Watching Lana perform was so inspiring, she caught everyone’s eye! Seeing how hard she must work and how much potential and pride she puts into her dancing really showed what you can achieve. Last night they performed 7 dances which were all unique and different from what we would usually see. We felt very privileged to have Footnote come to Gisborne considering Lana came to Gisborne Girls’ High School and danced with us at Nadine Antoinette School of Dance. It was awesome to see everyone’s support and hopefully next year they will return with new interpretations of Contemporary Dance . Alice Jenkins.
‘High octane choreography’ –�Ann Hunt, Dominion Post
‘With such a legacy to build on the future for dance has never been brighter’ –�Ian Lochhead, The Press
FORWARD Past/Present/Future Deirdre Tarrant/Malia Johnston
FOOTNOTE.ORG.NZ
2
For Tickets and Info
GISBORNE SCHOOLS GROUP BOOKING
7
Sports Results
Careers in the community 22 students, 7 campuses (including The University of Auckland open day), exploring opportunities.
Softball Jimmy Aupouri Memorial Softball Tournament – Tairawhiti Secondary Schools . A great day of softball was held at Barry Park A Grade Girls winner – Gisborne Girls‘ High School was “a class above the rest dominating in all their games.”
Girls’ High Hydraulink Senior A Netball Team - Report on our year.
Students out and about for Careers, STAR course and Gateway.
We are very proud to have captained the team this year. Though we had a few ups and downs at the start of our season, we ended our Gisborne Netball season placed 5th overall in the Premier Grade. We travelled to Rotorua for the Waikato BOP Secondary School Tournament held on Sunday 2 August. This gave us an opportunity to play against other school teams before heading to the Lower North Island Secondary School Netball Competition. We played well through the round robin section but after extra time in the knockout round, we lost by 2. It was a good performance by the girls. Girls’ High Hydraulink Netball Team travelled to Palmerston North Saturday 29 August 2015 to compete at the Lower North Island Secondary School Tournament. We were placed 25th from last year’s results and with only 4 original players from last year’s team it was a new, younger looking team and for some, it was their first experience of Secondary School competition. We would like to thank O’Neill Wilson, Raiha Malcolm and Alex Bermingham who joined the team for the tournament. There was a mixture of weather that the girls were not used to, as we had played our whole netball season indoors. This year we coped well with the weather thanks to the repairs on our school gym, which meant all our training was outside at the netball courts, so playing outdoors was not a problem for us this year. We played 9 games with no wins on Monday, 2 wins Tuesday, a win and a loss on Wednesday, 2 wins on Thursday and a loss on Friday placing us 20th overall. A great effort from the girls moving up the rank by 5 places. We were so excited by our achievement. We were unsure of what the competition was going to be like, but we were really impressed by the spirit showed by our team. The team was happy on and off the courts, the team worked well together, and had a lot of fun at Bowlarama and Flip City, going over to watch the basketball competition when we had time, and when we went out to dinner at Gengys on Wednesday night. Best tournament to date and well planned and organised by our Team Manager Dianah Foley. It’s the last year of High School Netball for Jordan Cribb, Ashleigh Brown-Smith and Te Kahu Peters. We had a great bunch of girls in our team this year, thanks also Sulieti Halafihi, Ladeen Haerewa, Jordyn Broughton, Aroha Brown-McLaren, Paruhi Peters and Lucretia Taitapanui. Big huge thanks to Hugh Spence from Hydraulink for the sponsorship this year. We are really grateful for all the support you have given to Girls’ High Netball and especially to the Girls’ High A team. Special thanks to our Coach Elaine Lamont for her time and dedication this year. Thanks also to Aunty Diny, who managed the team, organised all our fundraising and made sure we had what we needed and more. Thank you to Miss Hill who came to LNISS as our teacher in charge. For future, girls who would like to strive towards representing the school at this level or higher, we as a team recognise the importance of fitness. The games we lost were to teams that were fitter, faster and more accurate than we were. Don’t sit idle over the summer, motivate yourself, work on your fitness, and let your coaches work on your skill. Thank you Girls’ High Netball, I have thoroughly enjoyed playing netball for the five years of High School and good luck to the team for 2016. .Jordan Cribb, Co Captain with Ashleigh Brown Smith 2015.
MOTO X - GGHS results
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Hauraki Plains College- Nailing the Peat 3 ,Friday 16th October : Fritha Rau - Ladies - 12th Deborah Young - Ladies -11th Alana Andrews - Ladies - 3rd
3
The Beach Run Beach Run House Results 2015
Well done to all those who took part in the beach run - It was a great day out in the sunshine for all. Congratulations to those who challenged themselves, their peers and the Principal and competed in the year level competition. We have some awesome athletes in our school! A special mention to the year level form classes with the highest participants - excellent teamwork and class spirit shown; also thank you to 11PEH and the Sport Prefects for preparing and running the fun activities and prizes. Year 11 Year 13 Year 9 1st Alicia Hoskin 1st Kimberly Croker 1st Christy Tate 2nd Hannah Overbye 2nd Emma Lynch 2nd Tyla Bermingham 3rd Tyler Burgess 3rd Abby Brice 3rd Maddie wilson Highest participating Year 11 Form Class Highest participating Year 9 Form Class - 11W2 Year 12 - 9L1 1st Holly Drain Year 10 2nd Chloe Harris Overall House Points 1st Olivia Corrin - Overall Beach Run Champion Williams 132 3rd Brittany Jankowich 2nd Emma Le Goff Highest participating Senior Form Class Lysnar 111 3rd Kate Taylor - SL1 Duff 141 Highest participating Year 10 Form Class 10D1
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